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Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

microsoft.com

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a...
Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller package. Last year, after spending his workday thinking through potential solutions to machine learning riddles, Micro...
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'It Is Desolate': China's Glut of Unused Car Factories

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access....
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Manufacturers like BYD, Tesla and Li Auto are cutting prices to move their electri...

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IT Doesn't Matter

hbr.org

To beat your competitors, are you devoting more than 50% of your capital expenditures to information...
To beat your competitors, are you devoting more than 50% of your capital expenditures to information technology? If so, you’re not alone. Businesses worldwide pump $2 trillion a year into IT. But like many broadly adopted technologies—such as railways and electrical power—IT has become a commodity. Affordable and ac...

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The true story of Japan's samurai city that chose art over war

bbc.com
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A Psychologist Explains Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken

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The Compiler Explorer Story – Matt Godbolt

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The Potemkin Economy

substack.com

In the last few months, I’ve started to realize that there have been several strange anomalies...
In the last few months, I’ve started to realize that there have been several strange anomalies that have popped up with the government’s employment numbers. For years, we have grown accustomed to issues with the CPI, due to the constant moving of goalposts undertaken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency. Bu...
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

quantamagazine.org
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The Bad Trip Detective

nautil.us

Jules Evans was 17 years old when he had his first unpleasant run-in with psychedelic drugs....
Jules Evans was 17 years old when he had his first unpleasant run-in with psychedelic drugs. Caught up in the heady rave culture that gripped ’90s London, he took some acid at a club one night and followed a herd of unknown faces to an afterparty. There, he found himself pursued by a single thought, which followed h...
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Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions

androidauthority.com
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Piet

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Ask HN: Benchmarks for models other than LLMs

ycombinator.com
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Golang PGO builds using GitHub Actions

dolthub.com

In February of this year, I announced that Dolt releases are now built as profile-guided optimized...
In February of this year, I announced that Dolt releases are now built as profile-guided optimized (pgo) binaries, levering this powerful feature of Golang 1.20 to increase Dolt's read performance by 5.3%. Prior to my announcement, Zach, one of our resident Golang experts, experimented and tested Golang's pgo featur...
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C Isn't a Hangover; Rust Isn't a Hangover Cure

medium.com

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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California's grid. That's a problem

washingtonpost.com
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Helicopters the US spent $5B on can't carry president because they scorch lawn

businessinsider.com

The new Marine One helicopters, part of a program that the US spent $5 billion on,...
The new Marine One helicopters, part of a program that the US spent $5 billion on, still can't carry President Joe Biden because there's still a risk they will scorch the White House lawn, according to a new report.The rotors and engine exhaust from the Sikorsky-manufactured VH-92 Patriot will occasionally burn the ...

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Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The LatestWhat to KnowSale Requirement, ExplainedTikTok’s Self-Inflicted WoundsThe App’s Security ProblemAfter President Biden signs the bill to force a sale ...

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GitHub Deployments

wordpress.com

Simplify your development workflow on WordPress.com with GitHub Deployments. Say goodbye to the hassle of manual...
Simplify your development workflow on WordPress.com with GitHub Deployments. Say goodbye to the hassle of manual file uploads and tedious deployments, and say hello to WordPress.com’s new GitHub Deployments. With GitHub Deployments, you can seamlessly connect your repository to your WordPress.com site in just a few ...
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The Deuce Editor Architecture (2014)

archive.org

I come from a strange land where we program in a language called Dylan (opendylan.org). In...
I come from a strange land where we program in a language called Dylan (opendylan.org). In that land, we have an editor called Deuce, which is a descendent of ZWEI, a predecessor to emacs. It has some interesting features: Lines are polymorphic. They can contain text, graphics, etc. There is the concept of ‘Source c...
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QEMU Version 9.0.0 Released

qemu.org

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 9.0.0 release. This release contains 2700+ commits...
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 9.0.0 release. This release contains 2700+ commits from 220 authors. You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the changelog. Highlights include: block: virtio-blk now supports multiqueue where different queues of a s...
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Empty S.F. office tower formerly valued at $62M sold for $6.5M

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OpenBSD – Game of Trees 0.98 released

undeadly.org

The version control system gameoftrees 0.98 has been released and should soon show up in OpenBSD...
The version control system gameoftrees 0.98 has been released and should soon show up in OpenBSD -current packages. An update for the -portable version will follow as well. The main improvements in the new release are listed in the release notes as - speed up got tag -l by caching timestamps in got_ref_cmp_tags() - ...
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Apple/OpenELM: Efficient Open-Source Family Language Models

huggingface.co
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C isn't a hangover and Rust isn't a cure

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